Norah Elliott (b.1903): Reading & Writing “I was a great reader” Although Norah Elliott became a dedicated school teacher, her dream was always to become a writer. Whilst …
Norah Fearon Knight (1910-2000): Reading & Writing Reading is a particularly prominent theme in Norah Fearon Knight’s unpublished memoir ‘Nostalgia’ and books and poetry are both things she speaks …
Pauline Wiltshire: Education, Reading and Writing “I have somewhere to go, something to become, and something to show the world” (70). Pauline’s memoirs were encouraged by an adult …
Faizur Rasul (b. 1910): Reading & Writing Should this blog be autobiographical, then this topic would no doubt be Faizur Rasul’s favourite one. The constant references to reading, authors, …
Daisy Cowper (1890 – 1985): Reading & Writing Writing is something Daisy had considerable competency with, as evidenced by the sheer volume of text in her memoir. She writes with …
Isaac Gordon (b. 1927): Reading and Writing “When I go to work and I sit down and see everyone reading paper and I cannot read it, …
Amy Gomm (b.1899-1984): Reading and Writing Part 2 ‘Nobody supervised my reading, at this time. But it didn’t matter. There was no time to read’ (31). As discussed in my …
Dora R. Hannan (1909-2001): Reading and Writing “I loved to curl up in the fireside corner with a book, I could read before I went to school, and there …
Reading & Writing ‘There must be a bullet hidden away here somewhere and I’d be making it if I had not already shot my bolt …
H J Harris (b.1903): Reading and Writing HJ went into the orphanage at age 3 and was there till the age of 14, so any reading that he …